68. Reversed Situations

Zoro thought that it was strange the 7 Swordsmen of Mist didn't use their most famous strategy. Turns out they are waiting for a chance to use it and were just trying to learn more about Zoro's skills before doing it.

The surrounding area suddenly gets covered with thick mist. Zoro can't see anything, so he is relying on his other senses and his Observation Haki to find his opponents.

Strangely, they are keeping their distances from him while they keep moving around without getting too close to him. He can't attack blindly because he knows they are preparing something and he needs to be ready for that.

Suddenly, he senses many things flying toward him from all sides. He guesses they are kunais and shurikens from their sounds. So he deflects all of them using his swords by relying on his Observation Haki.

But then, a lot of those weapons explode. The 7 swordsmen placed paper bombs on a lot of those kunais, so now the explosions engulf Zoro, which they know won't kill him because he was fine when taking the exploding sword's explosions.

These explosions are just distractions to prepare for their real plan. As they've expected, he is fine, thanks to his Armament Haki that hardens himself, preventing him from being blown up to pieces.

The thick smoke and mist are obstructing Zoro's sight. So he doesn't see the thin wires that have been laid around him. The wires suddenly move and bind him very quickly.

Observation Haki can sense others' presence and intentions especially when it's directed to the user. But these wires don't have presence nor intentions because they aren't alive, so Zoro can't detect them.

His body gets caught by the wires that bind him from his feet to his shoulders. The wires are thin, but they are very sturdy. Their thinness also can cut his skin if he tries to struggle. Though thanks to his Armament Haki, the wires can't cut him.

"Hmph! Even if you can harden your skin to avoid being cut by the wires, you still can't do anything now. These wires will just keep getting tighter the more you struggle. We just need to keep attacking you until you run out of energy so we can break your defense."

The guy with the needle sword, Nuibari, is approaching Zoro while playing with his sword. He shows the wire attached to his sword, showing Zoro that it's him who laid this wire trap.

"We can also hasten your death with Samehada. It couldn't eat your jutsu's chakra, but I doubt it can't eat your body's chakra. I will drain your chakra until it's empty so you can't use your jutsu at all."

Samehada's user also approaches Zoro together with the remaining swordsmen. They grin sinisterly while watching the bound Zoro.

"I see. You have prepared this plan quite thoroughly. I must admit, it's quite impressive."

The 7 swordsmen smirk before they start attacking the tied Zoro. As planned, the fat guy who uses Samehada is the first to attack. He needs to use Samehada to eat Zoro's chakra so that Zoro won't be able to use his defensive jutsu anymore.

But because he is worried that Samehada's spikes will rip the wires, he only makes Samehada touch Zoro's body so it can eat Zoro's chakra without cutting the wires.

Zoro feels his chakra is being drained quite rapidly and flows into Samehada. He has always been curious how fast Samehada can eat chakra but it's faster than he thought.

"Ugh! It feels like the sword is sucking my blood." Zoro feels very uncomfortable when his chakra is being sucked.

"HAHAHA! WHERE'S THAT SMUG FACE OF YOURS GO NOW?" The Samehada user laughs smugly, followed by his fellow swordsmen and it really pisses Zoro.

"Thinking that you've won just because your plan works a bit. You are getting ahead of yourselves. I've had enough of this!"

Samehada suddenly trembles and squirms around. It stops eating Zoro's chakra and even tries to get away from him. Samehada is known to have sentience and it's getting clearer now because it looks like it's getting scared now.

The 7 swordsmen are confused by this and don't know what happens to Samehada. After all, none of them can see or even feel Zoro's Conqueror Haki. He doesn't aim it towards them either, so they don't feel anything.

"Seems like your sword is really alive. Also, it seems to be smarter than you. It knows how terrifying I am and thinks it's better to run away."

After he says that, the wires that tie Zoro's body suddenly break. The ones that break are the parts on his right arm. It surprises the 7 swordsmen who never thought someone could break this wire trap.

Also, these wires are imbued with chakra to make them even harder to break. Yet Zoro breaks the wires even after having a lot of his chakra eaten by Samehada.

Just now, when Samehada ate his chakra, Zoro was preparing his escape plan. He concentrated his Haki on his right arm and used advanced haki to destroy the wires that touched his right arm.

Even without moving his arm, he could break the wires just with his advanced Armament Haki. While he hasn't fully mastered his advanced haki, his current mastery is enough to coat a whole arm to break these wires.

"I think I've played long enough."

Zoro lowers his body while crossing his arms, making his swords point to the sky.

"Three Swords Style: Purgatory Ogre Cutter!"

He flashes and appears behind Samehada's user with his arms wide open. A deep cross cut wound appears on Samehada's user, Fuguki's body. Blood sprays out of the wound and he also coughs up blood before falling forward.

Zoro coats his swords with advanced Haki, so the wound is really deep and there are more internal injuries than what it looks like from the outside. Fuguki can't even defend because Zoro is very fast now, so his attack lands cleanly.

The swords cut Fuguki's chest very deeply. His ribs get cut easily and his heart is destroyed by Zoro's advanced haki, so he dies instantly.

Before the other swordsmen can understand what happens, Zoro moves to attack another target, the lightning sword, Kiba's user, Raiga.

Raiga's lightning attacks are the most annoying for Zoro, so it's better to remove him quickly. He swings his swords down as he charges toward Raiga, but Raiga blocks his swords with his swords that are coated with lightning bolts.

Zoro's attack is so strong that Raiga gets pushed back when he blocks it. Raiga jumps back and lets Zoro's swords swing to the ground without hitting him who jumps back very fast to dodge them.

But then Zoro chases Raiga at a very high speed and starts swinging his swords at Raiga. Both of them start to clash their swords, but it's clear that Zoro is stronger because Raiga keeps being pushed back.

The other swordsmen are coming to help Raiga, so Zoro needs to be quick. He needs to finish Raiga before they arrive to assist him.

So he raises his swords again and swings them down very strongly. Raiga blocks them again with his swords' branched parts. But Zoro's attack is much stronger than before, so his swords are being pushed down.

Before Raiga can try another trick to escape, Zoro pushes Raiga's swords to the sides. Then suddenly, Zoro swings the sword in his mouth. It surprises Raiga who clearly doesn't expect such a move.

The surprised Raiga can't react on time and in an instant, Wado Ichimonji has moved halfway into his neck. Raiga sees everything is spinning and he keeps getting closer to the ground before everything becomes dark.

Everyone sees Raiga's head get separated from his body and spins in the air as it falls to the ground. The swordsmen are in shock because 2 of them are getting killed so quickly.

"2 done, 5 more to go." Zoro grins while looking at the stunned swordsmen. His evil grin makes even these cruel swordsmen shiver. They were the ones who came as the hunters, but the positions have been reversed now.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

!! NEW!!

Read up to +40 CHAPTERS ahead in my p@treon page.

patreon.com/creampuffs69

Chapter 108. Tenten vs Temari

Please like and support this book too if you like it, thank you